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- MEETINGS WITH MEDIA ORGANISATIONS – 6 May 2010 – 15 July 2011

This list sets out the Secretary of State’s meetings with senior media executives for the period May 2010-July 2011. This includes all meetings with proprietors, senior executives and editors of media organisations for both newspapers and broadcast media. It does not include those meetings with journalists that ended up in interviews that appeared in the public domain, either in newspapers and magazines. It may also exclude some larger social events at which senior media executives may have been present.

This is the fullest possible list assembled from the Secretary of State’s Parliamentary diary, their departmental diary, personal diary and memory. Every effort has been taken to ensure that this is as accurate as possible but the nature of such an extensive exercise means something may have inadvertently got missed.

Declaration of interest: The Secretary of State worked for the BBC from 1991 to 1995 and News International from 1996 to 2005. He wrote a weekly column for News International from 2005 to 2009. His wife currently works for and has done so since 1998.

Secretary of State, Michael Gove Date of Name of Media Organisation Purpose of Meeting Meeting 19 May 2010 (), Dinner and general (News International), discussion plus more than ten others. 28 May 2010 Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), plus Dinner and general several others discussion 30 May 2010 (), Jon Dinner at the Hay Snow (), plus more than ten Festival others 10 June 2010 Rebekah Brooks (News International), Dinner and general plus several others discussion 17 June 2010 News International executives and Lunch and general senior editors, including Rupert discussion Murdoch (News Corporation), and Rebekah Brooks (News International) 2 July 2010 Tim Montgomerie (ConservativeHome) Lunch and general discussion 21 July 2010 Marjorie Scardino, Rod Bristow and General discussion John Fallon (Pearson Plc) 4 August Alan Rusbridger and Ian Katz (The General discussion 2010 Guardian) 25 August 2010 Channel 4 politics General discussion

2 September Andrew Porter (Daily Telegraph) General discussion 2010 14 September Daniel Johnson (Standpoint Magazine), Dinner to discuss 2010 plus others from Standpoint and education policy teachers 21 September Joanna Coles (Marie Claire) Social 2010 30 September Fraser Nelson (), Joel General discussion 2010 Klein (now News Corporation, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education and Assistant Attorney General to President Clinton), plus more than ten others 3 – 6 October George Parker (), Party Conference 2010 Patrick O’Flynn (), James meetings Harding (The Times), Roland Watson and team (The Times), Gary Gibbon (Channel 4 News), Cathy Newman (Channel 4 News), Nick Robinson (BBC), (), (News of the World), David Wooding and team (News of the World), Dominic Mohan (), Tom Newton-Dunn (The Sun), Peter Wright (Mail on Sunday), Simon Walters (Mail on Sunday) 16/17 October Lord and Lady Rothermere (Associated Social 2010 Newspapers) 21 October Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation), Dinner after Centre 2010 Rebekah Brooks (News International), for Policy Studies James Harding (The Times), Dominic lecture Mohan (The Sun), James Murdoch (News Corporation), Colin Myler (News of the World), (Sunday Times) plus more than ten others 29 October David Jordan (BBC) plus several others Dinner and general 2010 discussion 1 November Stephen Pollard (Jewish Chronicle) plus Speaker at a 2010 more than ten others BICOM dinner 17 November Martin Ivens (Sunday Times) Lunch and general 2010 discussion 30 November Rebekah Brooks (News International), Academy visit 2010 Will Lewis (News International), James Harding (The Times) 1 December ITV politics Lunch and general 2010 discussion 11 December Anne McElvoy (), Social 2010 Martin Ivens (Sunday Times), (BBC) 15 December Lord and Lady Rothermere )Associated Dinner 2010 Newspapers) and several others 17 December Rebekah Brooks (News International) Social 2010 plus several others 25 - 28 January Joel Klein (now News Corporation, Including private 2011 former Chancellor of the New York City and public events Department of Education and Assistant Attorney General to President Clinton), visiting UK as guest of DfE to explain and discuss US education policy success, including large conference platform and assorted dinners with senior figures from education and the media, including Rupert Murdoch. 31 January Rebekah Brooks (News International), Dinner hosted by 2011 plus several others Academy sponsor Charles Dunstone 2 February Lord & Lady Rothermere (Associated Dinner 2011 Newspapers) plus several others 10 February Paul Goodman (ConservativeHome) Lunch and general 2011 discussion 17 February CB Patel (Asian Voice) Presented awards 2011 at the Political and Public Life Awards 17 February (Evening Standard), Meeting to discuss 2011 (Evening Standard) plus education policy several others 22 February Ian Katz (The Guardian) plus more than Dinner 2011 ten others 14 March ( Media Dinner with the 2011 Group), Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) speakers at an plus several others education policy conference 3 May 2011 BBC politics Lunch and general discussion 12 May 2011 Lord Weidenfeld (Weidenfeld and Dinner and general Nicolson), Mathias Dopfner (Axel discussion Springer AG) plus more than ten others 19 May 2011 John Micklethwait (The Economist) Dinner for David Brooks (New York Times) 19 May 2011 James Harding (The Times), Rupert Breakfast and Murdoch (News Corporation), James general discussion Murdoch (News Corporation), Rebekah Brooks (News International) 19 May 2011 Geordie Grieg (Evening Standard) Presenting Evening Standard awards 6 June 2011 Channel 4 politics General discussion 7 June 2011 Richard Desmond (Express Lunch and general Newspapers), Martin Townsend discussion (Sunday Express), (Daily Express) plus several others 8 June 2011 Martha Kearney (BBC) General discussion 9 June 2011 Alan Rusbridger (Guardian) Education meeting 9 June 2011 Geordie Greig (Evening Standard), ARK education Fraser Nelson (The Spectator) plus dinner more than ten others 12 June 2011 Ben Preston (Radio Times) Lunch and general discussion 16 June 2011 Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation) Dinner and general plus several others discussion 22 June 2011 (Daily Telegraph), Ben Dinner and general Brogan (Daily Telegraph) discussion 26 June 2011 Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation), Dinner and general plus several others discussion 27 June 2011 Meeting with Bauer Editors and General discussion Executives: Paul Keenan (Bauer), Abby Carvosso (Bauer), Lillian Betty (Bauer), Jane Bruton, (Grazia), Chantelle Horton (More), Lisa Burrows (Closer), Kathryn Blundell (Mother and Baby) 28 June 2011 Evgeny Lebedev (Evening Standard Breakfast and Ltd) general discussion 30 June 2011 Jessica Cecil (BBC), plus several others Dinner and general discussion 12 July 2011 Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4 Dinner and general News), plus several others discussion